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BY the death of Frederick Robert Stephen Balfour on February 2, arboriculturists and horticulturists have lost a valued friend and counsellor. Though primarily an arboriculturist he was also a keen naturalist and a true lover of all kinds of plants. He had the advantages of having the means of travelling and of inheriting from his mother the beautiful estate of Dawyck in Tweed-dale which possessed a number of interesting and historical trees. In later life he had important business interests in the City of London, and it was probably his business ability which led him to include experimental forestry plots on a large scale at Dawyck.
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COTTON, A. Mr. F. R. S. Balfour, C.V.O.. Nature 155, 357–358 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155357b0
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